"Palestinian patients and business people hoping to leave the Gaza Strip are being asked to collaborate with Israel in exchange for an exit permit, a leading Israeli human rights organisation claims. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) say that 172 people, mostly men aged 18 to 40, were called for interrogation by the Shabak, Israel's internal intelligence agency, from January to November, 2011."
The report refers, among other things, to the case of Ahmad Hamoudi (20 years old) whom was called for an interrogation despite his sensitive medical condition and denied entry to east Jerusalem afterwards. PHR's occupied territories department filled a complaint against the cruel treatment that Hamoudi had to endure during the interrogation along with a request to allow his exit from Gaza so that he receives the medical treatment he needs.
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